New Features:
- Multi language support on all platforms: full support for Arabic, Hindi, Thai, CJK, Emoji, and more.
- Packages for Win64 and Mac, dead simple compilation for Linux.
- Proper Serif/Sans fallback fonts
- Proper rendering for vertical scripts
- Proper rendering for RTL scripts
- Proper outlines (no bars over joined text like in arabic/hindi/emoji)
- Per line gradients
- Drop shadows
- Works with bitmap fonts
- Automatically detect UTF-8 and UTF-16 text files, or select any other encoding!
- Force a custom language for Han Unification or other language specific glyphs without changing system language.
- Multi platform: You get the exact same rendering on all platforms (note: ONLY if you use the same fontconfig and have the same fonts available)Not so new features:
- Same familiar settings layout
- Mostly translated for non-english speakers

Missing Features:
(Let me know if you use these, show me your awesome scenes using these features if you want them!):
- Gradient direction
- Solid backgrounds (use an image source instead)
- Opacity sliders (set this in the color selection window as "Alpha")
- Custom text extents: Use the Crop+Pad Filter and Scroll filter to do scrolling text instead. If you need to instead ensure your source is consistently sized and have dynamic input see here https://github.com/kkartaltepe/obs-text-pango/issues/6
- Vertical Text alignment. See above

Preview:Windows:

MacOS and Linux:
4 text-freetype2 sources vs 1 text-pango source.
Combine as many languages as you want in a SINGLE source without ��� or □□□.